It is time for euphoria! Berlin has emerged as the cultural, spiritual, and social capital of Europe, once again, and it's time that the physical aspects reflect it's leadership position as well. I hope the Lustgarten landscape is planned with a nice renovation, too.

You will soon find out that there aremany other cities destroyed during the war that were real gems before. Take Nuremburg and Dresden as examples.

Yes, I've seen many in Germany and Poland, and a few in the UK too.

From my own knowledge of what happened in the UK, a lot of the bomb damage has been used as a ploy to grab land, demolish buildings and (as in the case of London), been used as a smoke screen to clear some very large tracts of land.